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louky on July 10, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Ants Sandbox - an ants simulator

Yeah, there was a discussion of emergence in Gödel, Escher, Bach[0] published 1979.

"Aunt Hillary" was the super-organism created from the actions of the indivdual ants, IIRC.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%2C_Escher%2C_Bach

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